Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.
If your “freedom” depends on fitting in and not attracting attention, then you’re not free.
Holy shit, that’s a lot of data. I had no idea they could see what language packs I have installed on my keyboard. I have a pretty unique combination of languages, so that probably makes me really easy to identify across platforms.
Is there an easy way to disable or block fingerprinting?
Some VPN providers offer a setting that makes it harder to analyze traffic patterns. They make every packet the same size and send them at regular intervals along with extra noise. It makes everything look uniform so that AI can’t match your traffic to/from the VPN server with traffic between the VPN server and your web activity.
It might be overkill, and it adds latency and uses extra data. But for maximum paranoia, it’s an option
Private tabs do nothing for the backend, your ISP, browser, search engine, and any sites you visit, can still see everything you do. All private tabs do is they don’t save history or cookies on your frontend.
VPN hides your data from your ISP, but there are still workarounds. Multi-hop can make you harder to triangulate though.
You still need to use a privacy-centric browser and search engine or else the ones you use can still send information about you back to their servers where they can build a profile on you. They won’t have your real IP address as long as you never connect without a VPN, but any little data they collect on you can be collated with the rest to profile you and potentially identify you.
Even with browsers like firefox or waterfox, you still need to enable all of the security settings or else there are gaps that can be exploited. HTTPS-only mode, DNS over HTTPS, anti-tracking extensions, etc…
Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an unseen gap somewhere. But it’s a lot better than using google and microsoft and no vpn.
They called his bluff. That’s hilarious
This person has nice handwriting
Oh no he didn’t just insult my favorite congressman!
It’s not even true either. Jamie Raskin is highly intelligent, and professional, and he even kept serving while undergoing cancer treatment. He’s a hero.
trump on the other hand, is trash.
This whole conversation is about it becoming more economical as the technology develops.
In the context of some places (cough, america) trashing initiatives related to EVs, your naysaying isn’t doing much to bring it closer to reality…
Good to see these young heros fighting the good fight
This is true. I was circumcized as an infant, and when I started having sex around 19, I wondered why it didn’t feel as good as it was supposed to. I thought I was doing something wrong.
So I tried harder and harder, inexperienced as I was, and didn’t learn how to make sweet, gentle love until much later. Even then, it was more for my partner’s pleasure, because my dick just isn’t that sensitive.
It caused a lot of problems in my relationships early on. Frustration and feelings of inadequacy on both sides, because I was “hard to satisfy” literally unable to feel satisfactory pleasure…
So a human growing up with a cut foreskin simply adapts and the brain perceives more sensitivity from the other nerves to produce the same levels of sensation.
That is just false. You sound like someone who isn’t circumcised.
Without the foreskin intact, the glans is subject to friction throughout the day as it’s in contact with the inside of one’s clothes. This reduces sensitivity over time and builds thicker, drier, and rougher layers of skin. Whereas the glans of an uncircumcised penis is basically a mucus membrane, on a circumcised penis it’s more like the skin of a knuckle, but thicker.
Even the glans loses sensitivity. On an uncircumcised penis, that whole area is basically a mucus membrane. On a circumcised penis, it becomes dry an rougher, like the skin on your knuckle. It absolutely does reduce sensitivity.
Also,
I would consider that as much loss of sensitivity as amputating a leg is loss of sensitivity.
You wouldn’t say doctors should amputate babies’ legs to reduce risk of gangrene, would you? How is that even an argument? “Oh, those nerve endings don’t matter cause it’s just like losing a leg, nbd.” What the fuck?
I was circumcized as an infant without my consent, and my mutilated dick wants you to stop downplaying the severity of its fate.
A piece of me is literally missing, and you want to say I’m not mutilated because that would offend you? Why, do you have uncomfortable feelings about your own situation that you refuse to examine?
Well you’re moving the goal posts, because this chain of comments is about “when the grid is built out more, EVs will be a viable option for more people.” So your “In today’s world” argument is irrelevant to the conversation.
Also, in today’s world, people are still capable of planning ahead to make sure they don’t run out of juice. You have to do the same with gas engines when you’re crossing the mid-west, where fuel points can be a hundred miles or more apart. People still run out of gas on their normal routes if they forget to pay attention.
EVs are currently used so sparsely that chances are the wait for a charging port is quicker than the line for gas at any highway rest stop. There’s no reason why the EV infrastructure can’t be built out more as adoption grows. It should already be being built out for future-proofing, but the fossil fuel lobby won’t stop crying about it because they don’t want people to consider EVs an option.
If you want to keep burning dead dinosaurs and accelerating global warming, no one’s stopping you. Just don’t force us to listen to you crying about it when gas is $10 a gallon and your pickup can only get you 5-10 mpg.
But you flipped the situation, making it an entirely different discussion, and then you went on as if you thought my previous point was still supposed to apply to the new topic that you introduced.
It’s not that I don’t like it; we can talk about the issues with training commercial LLMs on GPL code. It was just an unannounced change of topic. Like you were trying to score points, so you brought up something irrelevant to pretend I’m arguing against, which I wasn’t.
Corporations have been able to steal open-source code without the help of AI, and the same issues arise due to lack of transparency. It’s a problem, sure, but it wasn’t the problem we were discussing. And you acting like I’m somehow arguing against it being a problem is a strawman, because it’s not what the thing I said was in reference to.
That makes sense. I see the problem with that, and I don’t have a good solution for it. It is a divergence of topic though, as we were discussing open-source programmers using LLMs which are potentially trained on closed-source code.
LLMs trained on open-source code is worth its own discussion, but I don’t see how it fits in this thread. The post isn’t about closed-source programmers using LLMs.
Besides, closed-source code developers could’ve been stealing open-source code all along. They don’t really need AI to do that.
Still, training LLMs on open-source code is a questionable practice for that reason, particularly when it comes to training commercial models on GPL code. But it’s probably hard to prove what code was used in their datasets, since it’s closed-source.
100 miles takes like an hour and a half. Presumably there would be an opportunity to charge (as in the hypothetical future example, the grid has been built out more).
And on road trips, it’s best to take frequent stops to stretch your legs anyway. Why should anyone need a vehicle that can go six hours without refueling/recharging?
Wait, did you just move the goalposts? I thought the issue we were talking about was open-source developers who use LLM-generated code and unwittingly commit changes that contain allegedly closed-source snippets from the LLM’s training data.
Now you want to talk about LLM training data that uses open-source code, and then closed-source developers commit changes that contain snippets of GPL code? That’s fine. It’s a change of topic, but we can talk about that too.
Just don’t expect what I said before about the previous topic of discussion to apply to the new topic. If we’re talking about something different now, I get to say different things. That’s how it works.
Oh yeah, I forgot you know more about my dick than I do. The knuckle isn’t a perfect analogy, but that’s no reason to ignore the main point, which is that the glans itself is physically different on circumcised penises because of the friction it’s exposed to throughout the day.
You’re the one peddling misinformation by pretending there’s no difference between circumcised and uncircumcised dicks, and quite frankly with how systemic the problem is, I see no reason to tolerate your bullshit.